Grellman Census Quotes & Sayings

In a typical college romance novel, he'd be a gorgeous but troubled sex god who'd cure all my deep-seated psych issues with a good hard fuck. I'd smell his misogyny and abusive tendencies from miles off but my brain would turn to hormone soup because abs. That's the formula. Broken girl + bad boy = sexual healing. All you need to fix that tragic past is a six-pack. More problems? Add abs.
It's Magic Dick Lit. — Leah Raeder

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives — Jim Perrin

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. — Anne Lamott

I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour. — Richard Ayoade

There's no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is." She — Sarah Pinborough

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me. — Julianne Moore

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. — Ziggy Marley

If you really love me, you have to come to me without demands, I thought but didn't say, I wanted her to notice on her own. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love. — Alicia Sixtos

I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear a British designer for the state dinner ... From there, I was so embarrassed that I am definitely going to write to her. She has been super supportive to American designers. — Diane Von Furstenberg

My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema. — Deborah Moggach